Mishima in Bricks

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“In short, the spirit must be viewed as the special characteristic that differentiates man from the animals. It is the only essential difference.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

���The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“A samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

It is beyond politics, it is an aesthetic, spiritual war.
Bricks against the modern world.
#Brickers

[The Spectator 🇺🇸 @TheSpectator]

"The fight between the far-left and the far-right has spilled over to a new battleground: Lego-themed social media quote accounts," writes @CharlieNash

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[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“Dreams, memories, the sacred - they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified. [...] How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“Time is what matters. As time goes by, you and I will be carried inexorably into the mainstream of our period [...] We’ll all be lumped together…. In a few decades, people will see you and the people you despise as one and the same, a single entity.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.”
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

"Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. [...] a dissolution of individuality was necessary."
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

"If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss."
― Yukio Mishima

[Mishima in Bricks @MishimaIn]

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima